Highest Ranked Titles published in 1980

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Scoring: Wins are worth 50 points, nominations and second places are worth 35 points. For polls, third and lower places are worth (33-poll position) points.

Place	Score	Title	Type	Authors
1	300	The Shadow of the Torturer	NOVEL	Gene Wolfe
2	249	The Brave Little Toaster	SHORTFICTION	Thomas M. Disch
3	230	Timescape	NOVEL	Gregory Benford
4	230	Nightflyers	SHORTFICTION	George R. R. Martin
5	229	Riddley Walker	NOVEL	Russell Hoban
6	205	The Snow Queen	NOVEL	Joan D. Vinge
7	200	Grotto of the Dancing Deer	SHORTFICTION	Clifford D. Simak
8	190	The Ugly Chickens	SHORTFICTION	Howard Waldrop
9	185	The Wounded Land	NOVEL	Stephen R. Donaldson
10	148	Dark Forces	ANTHOLOGY	Kirby McCauley
11	134	Beyond the Blue Event Horizon	NOVEL	Frederik Pohl
12	129	Shadowland	NOVEL	Peter Straub
13	128	Lord Valentine's Castle	NOVEL	Robert Silverberg
14	121	The Orphan	NOVEL	Robert Stallman
15	120	Dragon's Egg	NOVEL	Robert L. Forward
16	120	Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth	COLLECTION	J. R. R. Tolkien
17	115	The Web of the Magi	SHORTFICTION	Richard Cowper
18	112	Unicorn Tapestry	SHORTFICTION	Suzy McKee Charnas
19	110	Lost Dorsai	SHORTFICTION	Gordon R. Dickson
20	105	Writing for the Twilight Zone	COLLECTION	George Clayton Johnson
21	105	The Cloak and the Staff	SHORTFICTION	Gordon R. Dickson
22	105	One-Wing	SHORTFICTION	George R. R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle
23	101	La compagnie des glaces	NOVEL	G.-J. Arnaud
24	100	Beatnik Bayou	SHORTFICTION	John Varley
25	97	Mockingbird	NOVEL	Walter Tevis
26	96	Firestarter	NOVEL	Stephen King
27	95	The Vampire Tapestry	NOVEL	Suzy McKee Charnas
28	92	The Autopsy	SHORTFICTION	Michael Shea
29	92	Ariosto	NOVEL	Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
30	91	Kill the Dead	NOVEL	Tanith Lee
31	91	The Lordly Ones	SHORTFICTION	Keith Roberts
32	90	Roderick or The Education of a Young Machine	NOVEL	John Sladek
33	86	Dragons of Light	ANTHOLOGY	Orson Scott Card
34	85	To Wake the Dead	NOVEL	Ramsey Campbell
35	85	The Dreaming Dragons	NOVEL	Damien Broderick
36	85	In Joy Still Felt: The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1954-1978	NONFICTION	Isaac Asimov
37	85	Locus - 1980 (Fanzine)	EDITOR	Charles N. Brown
38	83	Savage Planet	SHORTFICTION	Barry B. Longyear
39	83	Firelord	NOVEL	Parke Godwin
40	80	Cosmos	NONFICTION	Carl Sagan
41	70	Shatterday	COLLECTION	Harlan Ellison
42	70	New Terrors	ANTHOLOGY	Ramsey Campbell
43	70	Children of the Kingdom	SHORTFICTION	T. E. D. Klein
44	65	Dream Makers: The Uncommon People Who Write Science Fiction	NONFICTION	Charles Platt
45	65	Our Lady of the Sauropods	SHORTFICTION	Robert Silverberg
46	65	Tales from the Vulgar Unicorn	ANTHOLOGY	Robert Asprin
47	65	The Way Station	SHORTFICTION	Stephen King
48	64	Window	SHORTFICTION	Bob Leman
49	64	Strata	SHORTFICTION	Edward Bryant
50	63	Dangerous Games	SHORTFICTION	Marta Randall
51	61	Feesters in the Lake	SHORTFICTION	Bob Leman
52	61	The Beginning Place	NOVEL	Ursula K. Le Guin
53	59	The World Science Fiction Convention of 2080	SHORTFICTION	Ian Watson
54	58	The Mist	SHORTFICTION	Stephen King
55	57	Wizard	NOVEL	John Varley
56	57	The Feast of Saint Janis	SHORTFICTION	Michael Swanwick
57	57	There Beneath the Silky-Trees and Whelmed in Deeper Gulphs Than Me	SHORTFICTION	Avram Davidson
58	56	Wild Seed	NOVEL	Octavia E. Butler
59	56	Secrets of the Heart	SHORTFICTION	Charles L. Grant
60	55	Basilisk	ANTHOLOGY	Ellen Kushner
61	55	Golem 100	NOVEL	Alfred Bester
62	54	Rautavaara's Case	SHORTFICTION	Philip K. Dick
63	52	All the Lies That Are My Life	SHORTFICTION	Harlan Ellison
64	52	Anasazi	NOVEL	Dean Ing
65	52	A Storm of Wings	NOVEL	M. John Harrison
66	52	Songs from the Stars	NOVEL	Norman Spinrad
67	50	A Judgment of Dragons	NOVEL	Phyllis Gotlieb
68	50	Prsten	SHORTFICTION	Goran Hudec
69	50	ダーティペアの大冒険?Dāti Pea no Dai Bōken	SHORTFICTION	高千穂遙?たかちほはるか Takachiho Haruka
70	50	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: A 30 Year Retrospective	ANTHOLOGY	Edward L. Ferman
71	50	宝石泥棒?ほうせきどろぼう Hoseki Dorobo Hōseki Dorobō Houseki Dorobou	NOVEL	山田正紀?やまだまさき Yamada Masaki
72	50	Die Enkel der Raketenbauer	SHORTFICTION	Georg Zauner
73	50	The Land of Laughs	NOVEL	Jonathan Carroll
74	50	The Barbie Murders	COLLECTION	John Varley
75	50	Auf dem großen Strom	SHORTFICTION	Ronald M. Hahn
76	50	Die sensitiven Jahre	SHORTFICTION	Thomas Ziegler
77	50	On Science Fiction	POEM	Thomas M. Disch
78	50	An Enemy of the State	NOVEL	F. Paul Wilson
79	50	Дарю вам память?Daryu vam pamyat'	NOVEL	Зиновий Юрьев?Zinovy Yur'ev Zinoviy Yur'ev
80	50	The Ice Dragon	SHORTFICTION	George R. R. Martin
81	50	Vue en coupe d'une ville malade	COLLECTION	Serge Brussolo
82	50	The Stains	SHORTFICTION	Robert Aickman
83	50	グリーン・レクイエム?Gurīn Rekuiemu Guriin Rekuiemu	SHORTFICTION	新井素子?Motoko Arai
84	50	La femme-escargot allant au bout du monde	SHORTFICTION	Bruno Lecigne
85	50	Meeting Place	POEM	Ken Duffin
86	50	The Probability Broach	NOVEL	L. Neil Smith
87	50	Deus Ex Corporus	SHORTFICTION	Leanne Frahm
88	49	Ginungagap	SHORTFICTION	Michael Swanwick
89	49	Molly Zero	NOVEL	Keith Roberts
90	41	Have You Heard the One ... ?	SHORTFICTION	Spider Robinson
91	40	Spidersong	SHORTFICTION	Susan C. Petrey
92	38	Master of the Five Magics	NOVEL	Lyndon Hardy
93	35	Video	SHORTFICTION	Thomas Ziegler
94	35	The Late Shift	SHORTFICTION	Dennis Etchison
95	35	Die furchtbare Sonne	COVERART	David A. Hardy
96	35	Crouch End	SHORTFICTION	Stephen King
97	35	A Matter of Ceremony	SHORTFICTION	Sharon Lee
98	35	The Fourth Hemisphere	NOVEL	David J. Lake
99	35	Lion of Ireland	NOVEL	Morgan Llywelyn
100	35	Die Stunde des Horus	SHORTFICTION	Irmtraud Kremp
101	35	Breathing Space Only	NOVEL	Wynne Whiteford
102	35	Looking for Blücher	NOVEL	Jack Wodhams
103	35	Mummy!	ANTHOLOGY	Bill Pronzini
104	35	Le Naguen	NOVEL	Jean Hougron
105	35	The Lost Legion	NOVEL	H. Warner Munn
106	35	Der rostende Dschungel	SHORTFICTION	Ronald M. Hahn
107	35	Class Six Climb	NOVEL	William E. Cochrane
108	35	New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos	ANTHOLOGY	Ramsey Campbell
109	35	La guerre olympique	NOVEL	Pierre Pelot
110	35	The Patchwork Girl	NOVEL	Larry Niven
111	35	Grand Orientale 3301	NOVEL	Thomas R. P. Mielke
112	35	Cabin 33	SHORTFICTION	Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
113	35	Fix und Fertig	SHORTFICTION	Dieter Hasselblatt
114	35	The Touch of Their Eyes	SHORTFICTION	Steven Gould
115	35	Vision	SHORTFICTION	Ben Bova
116	35	Bug House	SHORTFICTION	Lisa Tuttle
117	35	Schule für Übermenschen	NOVEL	Herbert W. Franke
118	35	A Penny for Your Thoughts	SHORTFICTION	George Clayton Johnson
119	35	The Ink Imp	SHORTFICTION	R. M. Lamming
120	35	Im Schatten der Wolke: Eine Liebe in Lebensgefahr	NOVEL	Michail Krausnick
121	35	Call for the Dead	SHORTFICTION	Glen Cook
122	35	Heimkehr	SHORTFICTION	Uwe Anton
123	35	Androiden-Jäger	NOVEL	Karl-Heinz Prieß?Karl-Heinz Priess
124	35	Science Fiction Review - 1980	EDITOR	Richard E. Geis
125	35	The Pastseer	SHORTFICTION	Philippa C. Maddern
126	35	The Keeper's Price and Other Stories	ANTHOLOGY	Marion Zimmer Bradley
127	35	Vitriol oder Der Mann im Hundefleisch	SHORTFICTION	Jörg Liebenfels?Joerg Liebenfels
128	35	Horg	SHORTFICTION	Jay Hoffman
129	35	Shadows 3	ANTHOLOGY	Charles L. Grant
130	35	The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series VIII	ANTHOLOGY	Karl Edward Wagner
131	35	A Ring of Endless Light	NOVEL	Madeleine L'Engle
132	35	The Watcher	NOVEL	Kay Nolte Smith
133	35	The House of the Temple	SHORTFICTION	Brian Lumley
134	35	Waiting for the Barbarians	NOVEL	J. M. Coetzee
135	35	Als die Flut gewichen war	SHORTFICTION	Bert Jäger?Bert Jaeger
136	35	Passage to Earth	SHORTFICTION	Leanne Frahm
137	35	Der Bronzespiegel	SHORTFICTION	Irmtraud Kremp
138	35	Le cancer de l'escargot	SHORTFICTION	Jacques Mondoloni
139	35	The Best Science Fiction of the Year #9	ANTHOLOGY	Terry Carr
140	35	Vater der Zukunft	SHORTFICTION	Jörg Weigand?Joerg Weigand
141	35	L'appel du 17 juin	NOVEL	André Costa
142	30	The Visitors	NOVEL	Clifford D. Simak
143	30	The Bully and the Crazy Boy	SHORTFICTION	Marc Stiegler
144	30	The Last Defender of Camelot	COLLECTION	Roger Zelazny
145	30	Sundiver	NOVEL	David Brin
146	30	File 770 - 1980	EDITOR	Mike Glyer
147	29	Starship - 1980	EDITOR	Andrew Porter
148	29	The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories	COLLECTION	Gene Wolfe
149	29	Changeling	NOVEL	Roger Zelazny
150	29	Beyond Rejection	NOVEL	Justin Leiber
151	29	Meeting of Minds	SHORTFICTION	Ted Reynolds
152	29	Cold Hands	SHORTFICTION	Jeff Duntemann
153	29	The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction	ANTHOLOGY	Martin H. Greenberg and Robert Silverberg
154	29	Di Fate's Catalog of Science Fiction Hardware	NONFICTION	Vincent Di Fate and Beth Meacham and Ian Summers
155	29	Scholar's Cluster	SHORTFICTION	George O. Smith
156	28	The Northern Girl	NOVEL	Elizabeth A. Lynn
157	28	The Last Answer	SHORTFICTION	Isaac Asimov
158	28	Scrooge in Space	SHORTFICTION	Sam Nicholson
159	28	Science Fiction Chronicle - 1980	EDITOR	Andrew Porter
160	28	Jack Vance	NONFICTION	Chuck Miller and Tim Underwood
161	28	The Gates of Heaven	NOVEL	Paul Preuss
162	28	Guardian	SHORTFICTION	Jeff Duntemann
163	28	Warhoon 28	NONFICTION	Richard Bergeron
164	27	Universe 10	ANTHOLOGY	Terry Carr
165	27	The Stories of Ray Bradbury	COLLECTION	Ray Bradbury
166	27	Serpent's Reach	NOVEL	C. J. Cherryh
167	27	Teaching Science Fiction: Education for Tomorrow	NONFICTION	Jack Williamson
168	27	The Detective of Dreams	SHORTFICTION	Gene Wolfe
169	27	Split Infinity	NOVEL	Piers Anthony
170	26	St. Amy's Tale	SHORTFICTION	Orson Scott Card
171	26	What If? Volume 1	ANTHOLOGY	Richard A. Lupoff
172	26	Slow Music	SHORTFICTION	James Tiptree, Jr.
173	26	Robert A. Heinlein: America as Science Fiction	NONFICTION	H. Bruce Franklin
174	26	Expanded Universe: The New Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein	COLLECTION	Robert A. Heinlein
175	26	Puin	SHORTFICTION	Wim Burkunk
176	26	Still Forms on Foxfield	NOVEL	Joan Slonczewski
177	26	Hawk of May	NOVEL	Gillian Bradshaw
178	25	The Number of the Beast	NOVEL	Robert A. Heinlein
179	25	Saving Face	SHORTFICTION	Michael Bishop
180	25	Antinomy	COLLECTION	Spider Robinson
181	25	Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction	ANTHOLOGY	Martin H. Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander and Frederik Pohl
182	25	Frozen Journey	SHORTFICTION	Philip K. Dick
183	24	New Dimensions 11	ANTHOLOGY	Marta Randall and Robert Silverberg
184	24	Fundamental Disch	COLLECTION	Thomas M. Disch
185	24	Variation on a Theme from Beethoven	SHORTFICTION	Sharon Webb
186	24	Yearwood	NOVEL	Paul Hazel
187	23	Prairie Sun	SHORTFICTION	Edward Bryant
188	23	Tutor	SHORTFICTION	J. Ray Dettling
189	23	New Voices III: The Campbell Award Nominees	ANTHOLOGY	George R. R. Martin
190	23	Unbuilding	NONFICTION	David Macaulay
191	23	Out There Where the Big Ships Go	COLLECTION	Richard Cowper
192	23	Buoyant Ascent	SHORTFICTION	Hilbert Schenck
193	23	The Magic Labyrinth	NOVEL	Philip José Farmer
194	23	Keibal	SHORTFICTION	Leo Unger
195	23	Scavengers	NOVEL	David J. Skal
196	22	Prime Time	SHORTFICTION	Norman Spinrad
197	22	Web of Angels	NOVEL	John M. Ford
198	22	The 1980 Annual World's Best SF	ANTHOLOGY	Arthur W. Saha and Donald A. Wollheim
199	22	The Best of Walter M. Miller, Jr.	COLLECTION	Walter M. Miller, Jr.
200	22	The Science Fictionary	NONFICTION	Ed Naha
201	22	Two to Conquer	NOVEL	Marion Zimmer Bradley
202	21	Soldier of an Empire Unacquainted with Defeat	SHORTFICTION	Glen Cook
203	21	The Sixth Book of Virgil Finlay: The Astrology Years	NONFICTION	Gerry de la Ree and Virgil Finlay
204	21	The Apotheosis of Myra	SHORTFICTION	Walter Tevis
205	21	The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #2	ANTHOLOGY	Terry Carr
206	21	White Light	NOVEL	Rudy Rucker
207	21	Lost Dorsai	COLLECTION	Gordon R. Dickson
208	20	Thorn	NOVEL	Fred Saberhagen
209	20	History of the Movement, from 1854 to 1890	NONFICTION	Sam Moskowitz
210	20	The Man in the Darksuit	NOVEL	Dennis R. Caro
211	19	Billy Big-Eyes	SHORTFICTION	Howard Waldrop
212	19	Le Croix (The Cross)	SHORTFICTION	Barry N. Malzberg
213	19	One on Me	NOVEL	Tim Huntley
214	19	The Golden Man	COLLECTION	Philip K. Dick
215	19	Sabella or The Blood Stone	NOVEL	Tanith Lee
216	19	Orbit 21	ANTHOLOGY	Damon Knight
217	18	On the North Pole of Pluto	SHORTFICTION	Kim Stanley Robinson
218	18	Lore of the Witch World	COLLECTION	Andre Norton
219	18	The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels	ANTHOLOGY	Martin H. Greenberg and Robert Silverberg
220	18	Dangerous Games	NOVEL	Marta Randall
221	18	After Dark	NOVEL	Manly Wade Wellman
222	18	Men Like Us	SHORTFICTION	David Drake
223	18	The Cybernetic Imagination in Science Fiction	NONFICTION	Patricia S. Warrick
224	18	A Lost Tale	NOVEL	Dale Estey
225	17	Nebula Winners Thirteen	ANTHOLOGY	Samuel R. Delany
226	17	Scorched Supper on New Niger	SHORTFICTION	Suzy McKee Charnas
227	17	Wave Rider	COLLECTION	Hilbert Schenck
228	17	Lindsay and the Red City Blues	SHORTFICTION	Joe Haldeman
229	16	Earth and Stone	SHORTFICTION	Robert Holdstock
230	16	Songmaster	NOVEL	Orson Scott Card
231	16	Tell Us a Story	SHORTFICTION	Zenna Henderson
232	16	The Man Who Loved the Midnight Lady	COLLECTION	Barry N. Malzberg
233	15	Eyes of Fire	NOVEL	Michael Bishop
234	15	Their Immortal Hearts: Three Visions of Time	ANTHOLOGY	Bruce McAllister
235	15	Raising the Green Lion	SHORTFICTION	Janet Morris
236	15	Manifest Destiny	COLLECTION	Barry B. Longyear
237	15	Child of Darkness	SHORTFICTION	P. C. Hodgell
238	15	Duncton Wood	NOVEL	William Horwood
239	14	The Confession of Hamo	SHORTFICTION	Mary C. Pangborn
240	14	The Science Fiction of Mark Clifton	COLLECTION	Mark Clifton
241	14	The Gardens of Delight	NOVEL	Ian Watson
242	14	The Best of All Possible Worlds	ANTHOLOGY	Spider Robinson
243	14	All Darkness Met	NOVEL	Glen Cook
244	13	Necropolis	NOVEL	Basil Copper
245	13	Dream Dancer	NOVEL	Janet Morris
246	13	The Fear That Men Call Courage	SHORTFICTION	James Patrick Kelly
247	13	Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Ninth Annual Collection	ANTHOLOGY	Gardner Dozois
248	12	Nebula Winners Fourteen	ANTHOLOGY	Frederik Pohl
249	12	Thrice Upon a Time	NOVEL	James P. Hogan
250	12	Some of My Best Friends Are Americans	SHORTFICTION	François Camoin
251	11	Antithesis	SHORTFICTION	Michael P. Kube-McDowell
252	11	Stellar #5: Science-Fiction Stories	ANTHOLOGY	Judy-Lynn del Rey
253	11	Waves	NOVEL	M. A. Foster
254	11	After the Fall	ANTHOLOGY	Robert Sheckley
255	11	First Channel	NOVEL	Jacqueline Lichtenberg and Jean Lorrah
256	10	Interfaces	ANTHOLOGY	Virginia Kidd and Ursula K. Le Guin
257	9	City Come A-Walkin'	NOVEL	John Shirley
258	1	Star Driver	NOVEL	G. Harry Stine
259	1	The Star Sailors	NOVEL	Gary L. Bennett
260	1	L'homme aux deux visages...	COVERART	Roy Virgo
261	1	霧のむこうのふしぎな町?Kiri no Mukou no Fushigi na Machi Kiri no mukō no fushigi na machi	NOVEL	柏葉幸子?Kashiwaba Sachiko
262	1	Still Life with Woodpecker	NOVEL	Tom Robbins
263	1	Free Flight	NOVEL	Douglas Terman

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